Re: Bandwidth... compression... saving $$?

2002-09-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > Email does compress reasonably well, but having your mail server in another > country raises an entirely new set of issues. There's issues of support etc. > > As you have probably noticed I have a lot of experience of this... Yes... ;-) > Also email (excluding file attachments which are usu

Re: Bandwidth... compression... saving $$?

2002-09-02 Thread Jason Lim
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:37, Jason Lim wrote: > > However, I was wondering if there is a solid method to setup a link > > between a Linux or Windows or Mac box here in Australia, and have all data > > travel across a compressed tunnel of some sort. > > What do you do

Bandwidth... compression... saving $$?

2002-09-02 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, If you live in Australia, i'm sure you know about the exorbant prices for broadband here. HK, on the other hand, provide unlimited bandwidth and fast connections. I was wondering about this... okay, we know about mod_gzip for Apache, and i *think* it does proxy connections (through mod_pr

Re: ATA Drive Selection (Reliability)...

2002-08-29 Thread Jason Lim
Sincerely, - Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 7:06 AM Subject: Re: ATA Drive Selection (Reliability)... > On Thu, 29 Aug

Re: ATA Drive Selection (Reliability)...

2002-08-29 Thread Jason Lim
> * Another point on reliability that was published on this list very > recently is MTBF linked to the heat. It was noted 50% reduction > in MTBF with a 3 degree celcius increase. > Yes... I must agree. We have quite a number of IBM Deskstar 120GXP drives with 3ware cards running RAID5. Some of

Re: ISP shopping list

2002-08-27 Thread Jason Lim
I think there is a HOWTO on setting up a small ISP somewhere... check http://www.linuxdoc.org/ for it. However, AFAIK that howto talked about Redhat... and it was old (last time i check... maybe a couple of years ago). So you may want to try and find that if you want... just as a point of interes

Re: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

2002-08-26 Thread Jason Lim
That was REAL smart... sending this kind of tripe to us at Debian-ISP (and also Debian-vote and probably many others). You'd imagine that the spammers would remove keywords like antispam, admin, isp, and so on, since people with these kind of email addresses aren't usually THAT stupid to fall for

Re: mod_bandwidth

2002-08-22 Thread Jason Lim
Hi, We use mod_throttle. Works well... haven't had any problems with it. Provides everything mod_bandwidth does (I think). You might want to try that. Jason http://www.zentek-international.com/ > Hi! > > I'm trying to get mod_bandwidth to work with my apache (1.3.26-0woody1) > > I've read the

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-20 Thread Jason Lim
> I'm a sysadmin in a small ISP here in Argentina, and I'm not using > osirusoft rbl, why? fibertel. What's that? A big cable-ISP (in .ar, obviously) > who gives BOTH dinamic and static IP address for their customers, the > mails coming from the static one are (mostly) legit mails from real

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > I guess debian-isp is not a good forum for a discussion about internals > of RBL databases. One point, which could be useful for Debian ISPs here > is that Osirusoft's database uses unfair methods to fight spam > and blocks whole networks without proper explanation. The decision > to use that

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > he claims that it's OK for chinese sysadmins to ignore spam complaints > because they don't know english and don't understand the complaint. he > does read english and can act as an interpreter for them. if he really > cared about resolving the issue, he'd do something productive about it >

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > he claims that it's OK for chinese sysadmins to ignore spam complaints > because they don't know english and don't understand the complaint. he > does read english and can act as an interpreter for them. if he really > cared about resolving the issue, he'd do something productive about it >

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 06:47, Nathan wrote: > > > And besides... having those western legistative ppl... in Australia, > > > USA, > > > etc. acting like children, in front of everyone... is that really > > > something to be proud of? > > > > Ugh, since when did this turn into a racist political d

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > > i think you're bring up irrelevancies. the fact that company A is doing > > > wrong is not justification for company B doing the same. Its not justificaiton. But if TWO men kill people, why does it make it okay for the USA murder to go free, while the Asian murder gets the ax? > > > this

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> if you really want to do something to help resolve the problem, then > educate your countrymen about why running an open relay is a bad idea. > get them to understand the problem and DO something about it. that will > be far more productive and effective than simply whining about various > RBLs

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> if you really want to do something to help resolve the problem, then > educate your countrymen about why running an open relay is a bad idea. > get them to understand the problem and DO something about it. that will > be far more productive and effective than simply whining about various > RBLs

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > > Ah... but if I had not brought this to light, would you have even KNOWN > > about what was happening? Also keep in mind... it was "mail sent FROM > > the > > USA THROUGH Asia). People in Asia have no interest in your Penis > > Enhancements, Breast Enlargers, Free Trips to Vegas, 0% APR Credit

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:57:35AM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > AND I REPEAT (since you didn't choose to reply to this): > > --- > > [blah blah blah] > > > > What do you think now? > > i think you're br

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > Been there. Seen it. There are two sides to this issue, and when > > > you put 'em both on the same news group, you'd better expect > > > flames, especially when they are so totally diametrically opposed. > > > > This only supports my previous statment that telling people to go to NANAE >

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > I suppose because I notice these things first I tend to be the "bringer of > > bad news" to people and hence get flamed most. Oh well. > > Why not bring the news to people who run those Asian ISPs? > Because i can't possibly start teaching hundreds... possibly thousands of chinese net admin

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > whether you like it or not, anyone can block email on their own servers > using whatever criteria they choose. you do NOT have a right to have > your mail accepted. nobody does. that choice rests with the recipient > server. Yeah... except many End-users don't know / not aware of what RBLs

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> Please take this conversation off debian-user. I'm not entirely sure why > it ended up here, but it's quite off-topic. Isn't the discussion of various RBLs and mail software on-topic? Doesn't this affect debian users ability to receive email? Would discussion of various anti-virus software be m

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > (sorry for the long link... i couldn't find a way to make it much > > shorter). > > http://www.makeashorterlink.com/ :-) -rt > Ah yes, I'll need to keep that one in mind next time. Thanks :-)

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > And you wonder why Chinese admins don't respond. What would YOU do if you > > got an email in Yiddish? > > When I get email in Chinese I just report it to SpamCop, if I've ever > received a Yiddish email I'm sure I did the same. Eeep... spam or not? Nei how ma? ;-) > Everyone who is doing

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
N see the backlash of personal insults, foul language, etc. that they get in return. > Also it would be good to see a response from you to Jules regarding the > "Zentek (Jason Lim) is a spam-house, Iadvantage > tolerates spammers" issue. Already have responded to it. I'm vocal

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
=telstra&as_ugroup=news.admin.net-abus e.email reveals 4260 messages concerning Telstra spam. What do you think now? > Further, the SPEWS record for iAdvantage > > http://spews.org/html/S475.html > > says, and I quote, "Zentek (Jason Lim) is a spam-house, Iadvantage > to

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> Large multinational firms get to choose their own policy for spam blocking, > they don't let an ISP tell them what to do. All you need is a MD of a > company they do business with being unable to send an email to the MD of > their company and heads will roll. > If you want to persue your crusa

Re: scsi boot

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
This isn't really a Debian-ISP question.. but anyway... I don't think the 2.2 release had the Compaq SCSI drivers built into the kernel. You either need to compile/get a kernel with the required SCSI drivers built in, or get the module for it. Check the Debian website... I think there were boot

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
Sincerely, - Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:20 PM Subject: Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com) > On Sun, 1

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> the same problem occurs for anyone unfortunate enough to use a clueless > or spamhaus ISP. it's got NOTHING to do with the fact that it's asian. > spamhaus and open relay ISP's *MUST* be blacklisted regardless of what > continent they are on. Then please... go ahead and block rackspace netbloc

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > > > > SO... if you plan on receiving email from me or Asia, I suggest you > > use > > > > RBLs with clear listing and removal policies and methods (eg. the RBLs > > I > > > > listed above, and others), > > > > > > This is a good policy. Using DNSBL's that don't have some > > > resolution

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-17 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > I have communicated with Joe Jared on this (not using real > > identification), and while I won't divulge the private communications > > on a > > public list, the general jist is "i don't get legit emails from Asia, > > nor > > do people that use my list. So I could block all of Asia and n

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-17 Thread Jason Lim
> you seem to have a chip on YOUR shoulder about the osirusoft RBLs. this > is not the first time you have bitched about them in public. Yes... yes I do. I will bitch about things that I see are bad, and try and do things about it (like offer better alternatives). Perhaps you are one to sit on

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-17 Thread Jason Lim
> > > SO... if you plan on receiving email from me or Asia, I suggest you use > > RBLs with clear listing and removal policies and methods (eg. the RBLs I > > listed above, and others), > > This is a good policy. Using DNSBL's that don't have some > resolution method for a black listing is risky.

Re: failure notice (about relays.osirusoft.com)

2002-08-17 Thread Jason Lim
gt; > Received: (qmail 24127 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2002 01:29:56 - > Received: from unknown (HELO zentekgateway) (150.101.192.86) > by 203.194.146.32 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2002 01:29:56 - > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Jason Lim" <[EM

Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount

2002-08-17 Thread Jason Lim
> Rumour has it that data=journal can actually improve performance in some > situations. If a program is writing lots of small files synchronously (quite > common for a mail server that has one tiny control file for every message, > and the average message file isn't too big) then journalling the

Re: Binding Multiple IP's to a single NIC

2002-08-16 Thread Jason Lim
I thought the stock Debian kernel came with IP Alias support built in? - Original Message - From: "James Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lem Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 6:02 AM Subject: Re: Binding Multiple IP's to a single NIC > Was your kernel comp

Re: Binding Multiple IP's to a single NIC

2002-08-16 Thread Jason Lim
I thought the stock Debian kernel came with IP Alias support built in? - Original Message - From: "James Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lem Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 6:02 AM Subject: Re: Binding Multiple IP's to a single NIC > Was your kernel comp

Re: Binding Multiple IP's to a single NIC

2002-08-16 Thread Jason Lim
Paste the entire contents of your interfaces file, so we can actually see what is wrong. - Original Message - From: Lem Bryant To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 2:40 AM Subject: Binding Multiple IP's to a single NIC Would someone mind pointing a brain-dead u

Re: Bandwidth testing

2002-08-15 Thread Jason Lim
> > I was wondering what the best way to determine maximum bandwidth > > thoughtput is. I've looked at "bing", but it doesn't seem very accurate to > > me. > > > > Do you know of a tool or method which can simulate large bandwidth > > traffic, or can otherwise measure what maximum bandwidth though

Bandwidth testing

2002-08-14 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, I suspect that our upstream bandwidth providers including AGC (Asia Global Crossing) and that aren't providing us with the maximum possible bandwidth that we should be theoretically getting. We've been looking at informally made MRTG reports (yes, we know it isn't very accurate, which is w

Re: /root/ drwxr-xr-x?

2002-08-07 Thread Jason Lim
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:39:02PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > > > > > # ls -lad /root/ > > > drwxr-xr-x9 root root 4096 Jul 31 18:25 /root/ > > > > > > I wonder if /root/ shouldn't be accessible by root only per default?

Anti-spam system similar to Spamcop voting system?

2002-08-03 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, We've been using Spamcop (http://www.spamcop.net) for... well... ever since I last discuss this on the Debian-ISP mailing list a long while back. We chose to go with Spamcop because of it's "democratic" voting system, in which a number of people would have to send in a spam report (contai

Re: transfer rate

2002-07-05 Thread Jason Lim
> I have checked the things with mii-tool ..but as it don't support > rtl cards ... > > is there some options for rtl cards.. > i am using a RTL8139 100Mbit card.. Are you sure? I used it a long time ago with Realtek cards, and it worked fine. Not sure about the latest version... but I can't se

Re: transfer rate

2002-07-05 Thread Jason Lim
> I have checked the things with mii-tool ..but as it don't support > rtl cards ... > > is there some options for rtl cards.. > i am using a RTL8139 100Mbit card.. Are you sure? I used it a long time ago with Realtek cards, and it worked fine. Not sure about the latest version... but I can't s

Re: Users deleting public_html and log causing Apache to fail startup

2002-07-04 Thread Jason Lim
> But won't "rmdir ." succeed if they are in the public_html directory? rmdirs _below_ client1/site1/cgi-bin/ and client1/site1/htdocs/ would all work. rmdirs of client1/site1/htdocs/, or client1/site1/cgi-bin/ themselves will not work as that requires modifying the parent directory (client1/site

Re: Users deleting public_html and log causing Apache to fail startup

2002-07-04 Thread Jason Lim
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:20 AM Subject: Re: Users deleting public_html and log causing Apache to fail startup On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > The "users that know too much" keep on deleting their directories that > Apache uses to load up files from. > > For

Users deleting public_html and log causing Apache to fail startup

2002-07-04 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, The "users that know too much" keep on deleting their directories that Apache uses to load up files from. For example, assume the user directory is /home/username/public_html (for the HTML docs), and /home/username/log (for the LOG files). If the user deletes /home/username/log, or publi

Fw: OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)

2002-06-27 Thread Jason Lim
Hi All, How are you guys handling the SSH vunerability issue? Have any of you got the 3.3 working on testing/woody? Anyone tested the newest 3.4? I've included patches below to solve the problem (courtesy Markus Friedl [EMAIL PROTECTED]). How soon do you think these patches could be included in

Fw: OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)

2002-06-27 Thread Jason Lim
Hi All, How are you guys handling the SSH vunerability issue? Have any of you got the 3.3 working on testing/woody? Anyone tested the newest 3.4? I've included patches below to solve the problem (courtesy Markus Friedl [EMAIL PROTECTED]). How soon do you think these patches could be included i

Fw: ISS Advisory: OpenSSH Remote Challenge Vulnerability

2002-06-26 Thread Jason Lim
I think this is serious enough for fellow ISP admins that I would post it here. Do you all know how Debian's progress is regarding this? We are starting to get a large increase in SSH probes... perhaps crackers are already compiling a list of hosts running SSH, so when the full vunerability is rel

Fw: ISS Advisory: OpenSSH Remote Challenge Vulnerability

2002-06-26 Thread Jason Lim
I think this is serious enough for fellow ISP admins that I would post it here. Do you all know how Debian's progress is regarding this? We are starting to get a large increase in SSH probes... perhaps crackers are already compiling a list of hosts running SSH, so when the full vunerability is re

Re: Looking for qmail, vpopmail, webmail solution

2002-06-24 Thread Jason Lim
> > I'm in the process of building debian/woody packages containing the most > recent versions of vpopmail and vpopmail-enabled courier. Unfortunately > it may take a few extra weeks since I'm involved in many other projects. > I'll keep you informed just in case ;-) > > Best regards, > I thought

Re: Looking for qmail, vpopmail, webmail solution

2002-06-24 Thread Jason Lim
> > I'm in the process of building debian/woody packages containing the most > recent versions of vpopmail and vpopmail-enabled courier. Unfortunately > it may take a few extra weeks since I'm involved in many other projects. > I'll keep you informed just in case ;-) > > Best regards, > I though

Re: Updated Apache packages for Woody (testing).

2002-06-21 Thread Jason Lim
Dselect output for "testing" distro: *** Opt web apache 1.3.23-11.3.24-3Versatile, high-performan *** Opt web apache-commo 1.3.23-11.3.24-3Support files for all Apa And this is after dselect update. I see it in the pool directory, but obviously the package list

Re: Updated Apache packages for Woody (testing).

2002-06-21 Thread Jason Lim
Dselect output for "testing" distro: *** Opt web apache 1.3.23-11.3.24-3Versatile, high-performan *** Opt web apache-commo 1.3.23-11.3.24-3Support files for all Apa And this is after dselect update. I see it in the pool directory, but obviously the package list

Re: Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
> I can see your point on the performance problem. I know openantivirus is in > Java, I wasn't terribly excited about that either. I was more or less > hoping for some kind of cross platform C code. Many of the folks involved > with openantivirus have been/are involved with amavis as well so on

Re: Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > There is a free version of Trend Micro's virus scanner at: > ftp://ftp.antivirus.com/products/freetools/ > > You can download the latest pattern file and scan engine library for it from > their web site. I was able to use it to build trophie & virge found here: > > http://www.vanja.com/tool

Re: Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
cause the school's mail server is only a 586 with 128M (or was it 64M) of ram...and they also run a small internal website for teachers on it. So it obviously isn't any beefy server. Jason http://www.zentek-international.com/ - Original Message - From: "Vector" <[

Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, I was wondering if you guys know of any "open source" anti virus solution. I know about the ones that cost money, but I wonder if there is a good, production-quality, open source solution. Perhaps something even we can contribute to, so the virus signature database is expanded, etc. (but

Re: Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
> I can see your point on the performance problem. I know openantivirus is in > Java, I wasn't terribly excited about that either. I was more or less > hoping for some kind of cross platform C code. Many of the folks involved > with openantivirus have been/are involved with amavis as well so on

Re: Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > There is a free version of Trend Micro's virus scanner at: > ftp://ftp.antivirus.com/products/freetools/ > > You can download the latest pattern file and scan engine library for it from > their web site. I was able to use it to build trophie & virge found here: > > http://www.vanja.com/too

Re: Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
stantly infecting themselves as well. > > vec > > - Original Message - > From: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 3:37 AM > Subject: Antivirus setup? > > > > Hi all, > > > >

Antivirus setup?

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, I was wondering if you guys know of any "open source" anti virus solution. I know about the ones that cost money, but I wonder if there is a good, production-quality, open source solution. Perhaps something even we can contribute to, so the virus signature database is expanded, etc. (but

chattr certain dirs on Debian? (was Re: rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted)

2002-05-23 Thread Jason Lim
-- /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure Would this be something we want to do on Debian? Sincerely, Jason - Original Message - From: "John Gonzalez/netMDC admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:22 AM Subje

rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted

2002-05-23 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, This is happening on a Redhat 7.2 system, but i think it would apply across all Linux distros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]# pwd /usr/sbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]# chattr -iu sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin]# rm sendmail rm: remove `sendmail'? y rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not perm

chattr certain dirs on Debian? (was Re: rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted)

2002-05-23 Thread Jason Lim
-- /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure Would this be something we want to do on Debian? Sincerely, Jason - Original Message - From: "John Gonzalez/netMDC admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:22 AM Subject:

rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted

2002-05-23 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, This is happening on a Redhat 7.2 system, but i think it would apply across all Linux distros. [root@linux1 sbin]# pwd /usr/sbin [root@linux1 sbin]# chattr -iu sendmail [root@linux1 sbin]# rm sendmail rm: remove `sendmail'? y rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted [root@l

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-09 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > Using your mentality, then everything always gets escalated to the highest > > point (since everyone below the top-most ISP is essentially a customer). > > So... essentially, the highest point is nearly always the network > > provider... UUnet, Level3, MCIWorldcom... whomever owns the actu

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-09 Thread Jason Lim
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:56:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > > what has size got to do with it? > > > > Because the distinction between a customer and an ISP is not clear. > > [...] > > that was a tautology. it only matters if you think size is relevant. > > it doesn't matter in the s

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
> Of course. As said, if the list causes only people with *dynamic* IPs to > be forced to use their ISP's MTA, I'd agree that it's a very good idea. Very good idea... but how is the RBL going to stay so up-to-date with what is static, what is dynamic, etc.? It sounds good, but would be a logisti

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
> > 1. is the site an open relay? > > Most people here agree on this, but you'll still see some debate, > particularly about the distinction between relays that are merely open and > relays that have been actively abused. Some people think that we shouldn't > block an open relay until it's spamm

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
> > 2. is the site a spam source? > > That's my point. *Where* is your threshold? *When* do you, with absolute > certainty, conclude that a site is a spam source? > Actually, he sort of answered you... > if any of the above are true, then the site should be black-listed. > regardless of company

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
> [SNIP] > > no, it's not relative. there is an absolute, black-and-white criteria > > which you are too stupid to see: if a site is part of the spam problem > > then it should be black-listed. if it is not part of the problem then > > it shouldn't be listed. > > Pray tell then, *when* is a si

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
> > Okay... in that case, you can block virtually ALL the large network > > providers and hosting providers like Sprint, UUnet, Level3, etc., > > because nearly all of them have some sort of spam problem, big or > > small. I know of virtually no large provider that has not had 1 single > > compla

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
> > > > --- > > > > Q41: How does one contact SPEWS? > > > > A41: One does not. SPEWS does not receive email - it's just an automated > > > > system and website, SPEWS and other blocklist issues can be discussed in > > > > the public forums mentioned above... Note that

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-07 Thread Jason Lim
>> Yes. But if you want to get rid of _any_ spam, shut down your MTA. >> Which will yield about the same effect than using Spamcop as a German >> ISP. > >Have you sent an email to the administrators of spamcop informing them of the >sizes of the ISPs in question?^ >Why should I? After first notic

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-06 Thread Jason Lim
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:29:41AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Have you sent an email to the administrators of spamcop informing them > > of the sizes of the ISPs in question? > > why the hell should I, or anyone else, have to go out of my way to > inform some third party how large the ISP

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-06 Thread Jason Lim
>And Spamcop does *NOT* block entire ranges of IPs like other RBLs, so it >is virtually impossible for you to say that t-online, gmx and web.de are >"blocked". Only the spamming IPs within their ranges would be blocked, NOT >the entire range. >T-Online does Port 25 blocking, forcing you to use t

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-05 Thread Jason Lim
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:48:10PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > This is why Spamcop's collateral damage is much lower than others in > > that it does not block entire ranges, and which is why it is suitable > > for an ISP or Hosting company to use. > > both o

Re: [Fwd: Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-05 Thread Jason Lim
On Thu, 2 May 2002 21:47:07 +1000, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2 May 2002 19:58, Glenn Hocking wrote: >> I've found that spamcop blocks email from both GE (General Electric) and >> Pizza Hut mail servers which clients of mine need to receive. > >Are the GE and Pizza Hut case

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > > Yes, but here is the thing you did not mention. Spamcop does not > > > automatically block an IP just because a few people complained. It > > > takes into consideration the ENTIRE mail volume. So, using your > > > example, if the mailing list sends out 50,000 emails per day, and some > > >

RBLs for ISPs, was Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > I might also mention that it is not hard to get out of spamcop's > > lists, even if you are listed. Unless a site continually gets spam > > complaints, I think spamcop checks the RBL database ever 24hr... or was > > it every week... and removes stale/old entries. Try to get off some > > of t

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> Then I started using Exim. It doesn't send bounces to the postmaster by > default. (I just view the queue daily and receive an eximstats -- log > anaylsist report -- daily.) > > Don't configure your MTA to send copies of bounces to the postmaster. Is that even possible with qmail? It seems to

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:55:12PM +1000, Glenn Hocking wrote: > > Seems that one persons advertising email is another persons spam. > > no, the key difference between advertising email and spam is that spam > is unsolicited. > > not all advertising email is spam, and not all spam is adver

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:52:33PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > Well, they are not exactly comparable, as the rule-based Spamassassin > > does things based on "keywords and "keyphrases" and that kind of > > thing, while RBLs do things based on actua

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> Sometimes people forget that they signed up for a mailing list and when some > content arrive they treat it as spam. But also some big companies just > genuinely think that an advert for their products is desired by millions of > people and that they should send it out indiscriminately. > > If

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?]

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
I *REALLY* hate it when these spammers try dictionary attacks. The postmaster accounts fill up with thousands upon thousands of emails, until they are over quota. Then the emails double/triple bounce to the admin of the server (us). Sincerely, Jason http://www.zentek-international.com - Orig

Re: Spamassasin over RBL, was Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> procmail/spamassasin process mails yes "inside" the server, I just > give you a made up example: > > 60 Mails incoming per Minute, > > 5 seconds average Spamassasin procesing time per Mail > > => 60-12 = 48 Mails per Minute piling up on your incoming mail > queue = 48 new S

Re: rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Lim
> > > Does the -t option work in such a way, that if -t 10 was inserted, then > > the mail server would wait a maximum of 10 seconds for the lookup requests > > to be complete, and if they aren't complete, then ignore them and let the > > email through? > > Sadly, that's not what I've understood

rblsmtpd -t?

2002-05-01 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, This is a bit off-topic, but since I run a number of high volume incoming mail servers, this applies to any ISP... >From http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/rblsmtpd.html --- rblsmtpd opts prog rblsmtpd drops the limited SMTP conversation after 60 seconds, even if th

Re: Traffic analysis tools

2002-04-29 Thread Jason Lim
webalizer and analog come to mind straight away. Webtrends is the big commercial one. There was another... Urchin... or something like that, that claims to have bigger clients that Webtrends, but don't quote me on that, i'm not 100% sure. The above should do well. Freshmeat and Google are your

Compiling RAID drivers in versus out (as a module)

2002-04-29 Thread Jason Lim
Hi All, I would like to make the extremely important yet rarely mentioned fact that you should always compile critical drivers directly into the kernel and not as some module (all the essentials, like the 3w- driver if you have 3ware cards, etc.). The reason being is that if anything ever stu

Re: Secondary MX record for mail backup

2002-04-22 Thread Jason Lim
CTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Secondary MX record for mail backup It's just a relay with an MX record, it will queue if it can't deliver it. Regards Tim Kent >>> "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/23/02 11

Re: Secondary MX record for mail backup

2002-04-22 Thread Jason Lim
> > Does anyone have any pointers or a doc file somewhere on how to setup a > > secondary MX server. Basically, if the primary MX is down, then try the > > secondary MX (or at least compliant mail servers should try secondary > > MX...). The secondary MX server should more-or-less spool/store the

Secondary MX record for mail backup

2002-04-22 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, Does anyone have any pointers or a doc file somewhere on how to setup a secondary MX server. Basically, if the primary MX is down, then try the secondary MX (or at least compliant mail servers should try secondary MX...). The secondary MX server should more-or-less spool/store the message

Re: good jbod hardware

2002-04-19 Thread Jason Lim
> > There is no performance-hit with UDMA100/133 drives when using two > > devices per channel. This an old "SCSI-is-best" story that were true a > > long time ago. > > On http://www.coker.com.au/hardware/46g.png I have a graph of this using > ATA66 on an Athlon800 machine without DDR RAM. It sh

Re: Apr 17 10:49:49 teks kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 210.135.175.47:43827/

2002-04-17 Thread Jason Lim
> > Apr 17 10:49:49 teks kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer > > 210.135.175.47:43827/ > > 80 shrinks window 2321430930:2321431630. Repaired. > > > > So it appears that someone is running some sort of "tar-pit" system that is > designed to keep sockets in a bad state and run you out of kernel me

Apr 17 10:49:49 teks kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 210.135.175.47:43827/

2002-04-17 Thread Jason Lim
Hi all, can anyone make sense of the following? Apr 17 10:49:49 teks kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 210.135.175.47:43827/ 80 shrinks window 2321430930:2321431630. Repaired. What is this "Treason uncloaked"? I think the following is unrelated, but I also found a lot of them (50+) in the l

Re: Catchall for Bind?

2002-04-15 Thread Jason Lim
> > > Is there any way to setup a "catch-all" BIND IP address? That is... if a > > > domain name has our DNS servers listed, then we automatically resolve it > > > to a predefined IP number (act authoritive). Sort of how you can have a > > > "default" virtual host in Apache. > > > > > > Naturally,

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